Sunday, January 5, 2014

The Cube design has been developed with the following key functions in mind; sustainable development, prefabricated construction methods, visual impact and cost efficiency. The major benefit of The Cube extension is that it can be installed for the same cost as a glass roof conservatory, which means you get the benefit of thermal mass construction providing great energy efficiency, large glazing with bifold doors and frameless skylights, allowing maximum day light penetration and amazing opportunity for evening star gazing when relaxing or entertaining.

An extension to your house can be a easier option to moving for gaining more living space, but how much will it cost for types of extension of different sizes? As a rough idea you can typically say that it will cost 1000 per m2 or 93 per ft2 including basic plumbing and electrician work. This price is per unit area of internal floor space and so a 5x4m single floor extension will have a total floor area of 20m2 and a double storey will have 40m2.

Typically, single storey house extension costs will cost more per metre squared than a double storey. In theory a triple storey would cost less still. In practise the difference in cost may be small though. The price per square metre also depends on the size of the property. There are basic costs that dont increase too much with size and hence the cost per square metre will decrease as the floor area increases.

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Waffles have been dietary staple of people around the world for a long time. Earlier generations created waffles by placing a barley batter onto a crude iron griddle, and baking the batter to create a toasted cake. From there, things quickly progressed. People began to experiment with ingredients and baking methods.

There were changes to recipes and equipment. Some people were fond of baking their family crests into the waffles. Technology advanced to develop easier ways of baking waffles, and new appliances were introduced to the market.

Making delicious waffles at home really is very easy. All you need is a good batter recipe and a proper waffle iron. You dont need a fancy appliance; just a basic design with two metal plates that are hinged at a centre point. These metal plates are heated and the waffle iron folds in half. With batter between, the hot metal plates provide the perfect place for the waffles to bake to perfection.

Traditionally, waffle irons were heated in an open flame. With attached tongs, the batterfilled irons were held over a fire to bake the waffles. Today, of course, modern cooks use electric waffle irons that easier to use, clean and store.

Waffle irons are available in many sizes and the indentations on the surfaces of the baking plates can come in a variety of shapes. Shopping around, youll find waffle irons that decorate your waffles with circles, triangles or traditional squares. Serve heartshaped waffles to your Valentine, or bake the face of a favorite cartoon character right in to your kids waffles. Some waffle irons have removable plates, allowing you to change the design to suit your mood.

One of the most popular waffles today is the Belgian Waffle. Waffle lovers discovered these delicious treats around 1965. Since then, people have devoured them at mealtime, snack time and at carnivals. Belgian waffles are baked using special irons that have deeper indentations on the plates. The result is wonderful, deep crevices that hold fresh fruit, maple syrup, whipped cream, and even chocolate chips.

Why reach into a box of frozen waffles when its so easy to make homemade? Buy a waffle iron and treat yourself to the aroma and flavor of freshbaked treats. Youll never reach for the toaster again!

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The survival and development of company depend on innovation. Innovation comprise of strategic innovation and management innovation. Enterprises must be changed with situation change, according to consumers habits, channel capacity and selectivity changes, force the enterprises to adapt competition, at the same time to make reaction at once. Historical experience showed more than once, the faster the response, the higher the rate of survival, the stronger competitiveness; on the contrary, it will be eliminated.

Operators often face with situation in the management: whatever you are the new enterprise that want to enter the market or have a certain status, and attempt to expand business, all that need a new and effective approaches to the development of the advance of guiding the enterprises which are relying on strategic innovation.

Strategic innovation is a kind of capable. Gary Hamel, as a famous management said, strategic innovation is capable which analytics and reconstruct allocation of existing resources in business and industry to create new value for customers and create new wealth for all shareholders. Strategic innovation is the only way to get succeed for new company confront with disadvantage and the same to existing firms.

Strategic innovation helps the company redefine the market goal. Organizations to determine the business objectives will determine how companies determine their own customers, competitors, competitive strength, also determine to the opinions about critical successful factors, and ultimately deciding the competitive strategy, strategic innovation can succeed in dealing with a variety of competitive strategies even the opponents.

For example, MBT shoes are distinguished from others, they are fitness shoes, good for health, and can meet customers requirements with fitness. They encourage perfect posture and gait, burn calories; reduce stress on knee and hip joints. They research and develop the new technology in advance about strategic innovation, so play an important part in fitness shoes.

The same to strategic innovation, management innovation also has an effect on new enterprises.

First, management innovation aims to improve enterprise efficiency of the allocation of limited resources. However the efficiency can be reflected on many index. For example liquidity faster, reduce consumption of resources system, labor productivity, etc., but will eventually be reflected in economic indicators, which improved the enterprise profit.

Second, with management innovation, reduce the transaction cost as possible as it can. It is clearly proved that management and management innovation play an important role of improving enterprise efficiency to enterprise development.

Third, it supplies the more efficiency management ways, methods and means with management innovation. Management innovation keep the business with stability and strengthen the enterprise with many ways. Management hierarchy and effectively realize its coordination function, the level of the system itself becomes the persistence, the source of power and continue to grow. As the different unit has different business model, for work of individuals or groups exist the restrictions.

Fourth, in business, management innovation affects marketing sale, assure to compete with other enterprises. While determined the competition and marketing, the enterprises will confront with many competitiors. If enterprises can be able to carry out the specific measures in management innovation, then conquer the rival party, this is management innovation..

The food we eat, the air we breathe and the water we drink are all polluted. It seems that there is no place on earth that is safe to dwell in. Nobody is to blame in mans present predicament but man himself. People had been taught on the proper disposal of trash yet they continue to do their own convenient way. The polluted environment has caused many diseases and some even resulted to death.

Sanitation has never been observed by many people. It is sufficient to them that they were able to dispose their trash whether they did it correctly or not, they do not care. Would it be too late to reform? Is there still a chance to make our planet clean?

The government of every nation has always been reminding people on the proper disposal of their trash. Man has been informed about the biodegradable and nonbiodegradable trash. In disposing the garbage man should be able to conform with the regulations of segregating the two types of waste.

Biodegradable waste consists of organic waste. These are the kitchen garbage, the vegetables, fruits, flowers, leaves and paper. Biodegradability is associated with materials that can be decomposed into nontoxic byproducts. It has to be an organic substance. These need to be broken down by microorganism to become compost and be useable by plants. Any biodegradable item that ends in a landfill instead of being converted into compost can be worst.

Nonbiodegradable wastes are those that do not decay. This type can be further classified into three sub classes the recyclable waste, toxic waste and soiled. Recyclable wastes consist of plastics, paper, glass, metals and many others. The toxic wastes, which are the most harmful to man, consist of medicines, paints, spray cans, bulbs, chemicals, fertilizer and pesticide containers. Used batteries fall under this category. The soiled wastes are hospital wastes that includes blood soiled clothes and other clothes soiled by other body fluids. The toxic and the soiled trash must be disposed of properly and under guidance. These are most harmful to men.

Man should know how to segregate his trash into these classifications otherwise their health will be placed in extreme jeopardy. The government had already given the colors of trash cans where each type of garbage is classified into. If man persists to do his wrongful garbage disposal, pollution will continue uncessantly.

If man wants to live healthy and health hazard free, he should start abiding by the rules on waste segregation. One recommended solution to this is to color code the plastic garbage bags green for biodegradable, yellow for infectious or toxic wastes and black for nonbiodegradable..

Most historians believe shadow puppetry originated in China some 2,500 years ago, though the art certainly has its roots in many cultures throughout the world. It likely developed somewhat independently in other nations in the years following its birth in China. Cultural exposure was also likely a contributing factor, at least in the shadow puppetry of some locations in the world; however, the distinct difference in the manner in which the shadow plays are performed, as well as the subject matter they display in other countries, points even further toward independent origins. The story of the arts development is muddled with tragedy and romance. According to legend, the first shadow puppet was created to soothing the aching heart of the emperor Wu Han. His most beloved concubine died from a sudden illness and the emperor dropped into a deep and lasting depression. He lost interest in life and began to neglect all his leadership duties.

His advisers made every effort to console Wu Han but in spite of their attempts, nothing brought the man back from his sorrowful living grave. That is, until one of the finest artists in the land created a shadow puppet of his beloved. It was constructed from donkeyhide leather and made in such a way as to make it possible to mimic the movements of a living person.

The artist set up an illuminated silk screen and performed puppetry with the concubines likeness, creating the first shadow theater performance. The story goes that the artist even spoke in the cadence and tone of the deceased woman, stirring the Emperor from his depression and refocusing him on continuing in life.

Though the historic accuracy of this tale has never been proven, it has become the most well known story of the origins of shadow theater in China. The spread of the art from China to other areas of the world is believed to be in large part due to Mongol influence. The belief is that the conquering Mongols commonly enjoyed shadow puppetry performances in their tents in the evenings and that carried the art with them to other regions of the world in their conquests, reaching Persia, Arabia, and Turkey. Later, the tradition would take root in southern Asia and eventually would establish a hold in nearly every area of the world.

India has one of the longer traditions in shadow puppetry, with the art reaching prominence in the 1500s. The reign of King Kona Bhuda Reddy is a period of particular growth in India. Indian puppeteers during this period used some of the largest puppets known in history.

Taiwanese shadow plays were very popular during the 15th and 16th centuries and the tradition has remained prominent today. The puppets used in Taiwan are between eight and 12 inches in height and made of leather. More than 300 shadow play scripts, dating as far back as the 14th and 15th century, are among the countries cultural treasures.

The shadow puppetry of Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia continues to thrive today. All of these countries have a long tradition of shadow theater, with performances occurring at social gatherings, religious ceremonies, and unique entertainment events. In all three counties, the puppets are made of leather, as in the Chinese tradition.

The Turkish tradition of shadow theater can be traced back to the Ottoman Empire. Many historians believe that Ottoman Shadow puppetry may have potentially arisen from Egyptian heritage rather than exposure to the Chinese art. There is no definite proof either way though.

Todays Turkish and Greek shadow puppetry is credited to the historical Ottoman shadow theater. The original Ottoman characters and plays were adapted to the language and culture of Greece in the 1800s. Greek shadow theater continues to be popular today.

French Shadow puppetry began in the mid1700s after French missionaries brought the practice back from China. The first shadow puppetry was performed in 1767 in Paris and Marseilles. As with each country in which the art appears, it was adapted to the local culture and customs, giving it a strong foothold in the history of French theater.

The advent of modern forms of entertainment has been a powerful force in the decline of shadow theater in popular culture. At one time in many parts of the world, the art was highly valued and shadow plays were commonplace. The emergence of television is credited with the decline of shadow puppetry in Greece. Movie theaters and television are also responsible for its drop in popularity in France and Turkey.

While shadow theater is not as popular as it once was, and plays are not commonly performed in as many locations, it is still a well appreciated art. Modern performances are highly valued and held in theaters across the globe. The importance of shadow plays in Asian culture is still very apparent, and they remain common in everyday life in many countries throughout the region.

Internet users have made the transition from traditional desktop and notebook computers to handy mobile devices. Over the years, with more and more people switching to mobile phones, especially smartphones, shopping habits have changed significantly.

It was also found that as many as 79% of smartphone users use their phones to get useful information while shopping. This includes finding information on products, comparing different products, locating a retailer, making inquiries, etc. These statistics clearly showcase the need for mobile websites. The following are a few more points that could help you better understand the importance of having a mobile website for your auto dealership website.

Traditional websites designed for computers do not look complete in mobile phones. Further, when users try to access your website using a mobile phone, they are likely to miss valuable information on your website. This may make users go to other dealership websites that are mobile compatible. In order to avoid inconveniencing mobile users and to provide them with good user experience, you need to have a mobile website for your auto dealership.

Mobile websites not only make it easy for your users to browse your website using mobile phones but they also help you present your users with all the required information.

Enables you to leverage the traffic coming from mobiles

The number of people browsing Internet using smart phones is increasing rapidly. Search engines are also actively serving mobile users by giving first preference to mobile websites. So, whenever search engines identify a query coming from a mobile device, they will list all the related mobile websites. Undoubtedly, having one enables you to leverage the traffic coming from mobile phones.

Saturday, January 4, 2014

If I had to begin my business again from scratch, I would look at forming strategic alliances and seeking joint ventures partners much sooner in my business growth plan. Asking a more successful business owner to help you promote your site or to form an alliance where you both benefit is one of the quickest ways to turbocharge your success, provided it done correctly.

However, therein lies the problem. Most joint venture requests are made with absolutely no planning and no forethought. Since I had an online business for many years, I get emails every week requesting me to promote or joint partner with someone in some way. Almost all of the requests are immediately deleted because the person making the request has simply not done his/her homework and presents me with, at best, a very illconceived plan.

There are a few simple steps you should take BEFORE seeking out any joint venture partners or strategic alliances. Here are 4 secrets to success in your joint venture partnership request:

1. Product ties into target market. I always getting joint venture requests from people who have products that make absolutely no sense for me to promote. The most mismatched request I gotten for a JV is with a portable shuffleboard game business owner. No one has joined my list to hear about the latest in any type of game, and undoubtedly my list members would wonder what crazy pill I taken the day I send out an email to tell them about this product. It a complete mismatch for my list.

However, the promoter of this game just didn get it. He continued to insist that my list would benefit because everyone needs relaxation time, and this game would provide that. Wrong, wrong, wrong. His interest in the JV was due to the fact that I have a large list. A large list doesn matter if it contains the wrong target market. For successful joint ventures, approach businesses who serve the same target market as you and who sell similar products.

2. Reliable tracking software. A second way to get shot down immediately in your joint venture request is to tell your prospect, I manually track your affiliates when they write your name in the by box on my order form. Yeah, right. That NEVER works. The only way I joint venture with anyone is if they are using reliable affiliate tracking software that provides me with a unique affiliate link that I can use throughout any web pages I create or emails I might send, as well as permits me to check on my affiliate commission sales at any time. To successfully make a joint venture request, offer your JV partner the ability to reliably track his/her success with the joint venture.

3. Worthwhile commissions. offer you $2 in commission for every sale that you make! While this JV requester thinks this proposal should make me stop in my tracks and hang onto his every word, a proposal this inconsequential just isn worth my time. Your product has to be priced high enough that the commission option will be worthwhile for your JV partner to promote. To determine what this might be, take a look around potential JV partner sites. At what price ranges are their products offered? What commissions are they offering to their affiliates?

I was in a teleclass recently with a wellknown Internet marketer who said he wouldn even consider a JV partnership unless he received around $1000 per sale. In this case, the JV requester product will need to be priced at least $2000 in order to award commissions of that magnitude. Can you play at the level at which you making your requests? A good JV partnership is born when the requester and the partner offer similarly priced products and similar commission structures. Make it worthwhile for your JV partners to promote your product.

4. Conversion rates. The worst thing you can do is say, don know when your JV partner asks you the question, is the conversion ratio of your sales letter? Your JV partner has no desire to be your guinea pig and test the success of your sales letter for you. You need to know your conversion numbers before approaching anyone with a JV partnership offer. 1 out of every 100 or 50 out of every 3000. The higher your conversion rate, the more likely someone will accept your offer to joint venture.

If you don know the conversion number, try some payperclick advertising or start first with JV partners with smaller lists. This will allow you to tweak and improve your sales letter page and thus increase your conversion ratio to better prepare you to make requests to more powerful JV partners.

Joint venture partnerships are a very effective way to rapidly increase your sales and grow your business. Do your homework and get your plan in the place now so that you can add this strategy to your marketing arsenal.

According to Guinness Book of World Records, Madonna is the worlds most successful female recording artist of all time. Also she is the topearning female singer with an estimated net worth of more than $400 million, having sold more than 200 million records worldwide.

In 1985 she married Hollywood Academy award winning actor, Sean Penn. They divorced in 1989. At present, Madonna is married to British film director, Guy Ritchie

In the year 1989, Madonna was condemned by the Vatican because her video Like A Prayer was interlinked with religion and eroticism, thus causing PepsiCola to cancel a sponsorship deal with her. This controversial video turned out to be a global bestseller.

In the year 1990 at the Blonde Ambition tour, Madonna famously wore a Jean Paul Gaultier conical bra, which became the talk of the town.

In the year 1992, Madonna posed nude in a series of provocative poses in her erotic and controversial book SEX.

At the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, while they were performing her classic song Like A Virgin, Madonna frenchkissed Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.

August in Florida has a daily ritual that Floridians take with a grain of salt. It the daily storms that pass by and that are filled with more electricity than in a 4th of July fire works display. It no wonder they call Florida the Capital of the World Because rain clouds can be literally feet away from you and dump a huge storm on the people across the street and meanwhile your side of the street remains dry. It just depends on where you are located at the moment to the degree you get rained upon.

The other day, the clouds were trumpeting and announcing the coming of a storm, or so I thought. Most of the people remained in the pool which totally surprised me. In Charlotte, at the very sound of thunder, we all jumped out of the pool for the next 20 minutes. Here though, they wait for the serious stuff, the lightning. That what signals to the people here that the real storm is on the way.

The storms here remind me that many people are going through different degrees of their own personal storms. The older I get, I see how life is full of hardships and triumphs. There isn a time where anyone has just it unless they died and gone to heaven. Life is full of ups and downs, big storms and tiny rain clouds that we get through with little or no effort.

In my own circle of friends and family, my 28 year old cousin Paul has brain and testicular cancer. He is having the fight of his life in North Carolina while the rest of his family flies out from Oregon to be with him. His girlfriend Christine, has been with him through the whole ordeal. Chemo and radiation treatments are a lot to handle for a young couple.

My brother just found out that he has skin cancer. The prognosis is good, but it seems to come at an unthinkable time. He just sold his house and he and his family have 2 weeks to be out of the house and settled in somewhere new.

My niece boyfriend is being sent to Kuwait. My good friend just put her mom in an assisted living facility. Another friend is having a difficult time dealing with her new step son. Another friend is trying to find a new career which is proving to be difficult.

Everywhere I turn, I see people dealing with the stress in their lives. It seems that everyone has different degrees of difficulty at different times. But in every case, I see people rising up to help the people who are going through the storms. It seems that we get the strength that we need to help others when they need it. And in our days of difficulties, if we review the rough times we had, we can see how others have helped us through as well. Maybe it was just a kind word. Maybe we took our friends kids for the afternoon if they were at their wits end. Or maybe we helped someone financially in their darkest hour.

If you read any motivational book, any Bible or religious work, we should know now that we are here to serve. We are here to help others through their rough times. We are supposed to help those less fortunate than us and those who need a helping hand. And what about those people who always seem to be enduring difficulties? Perhaps they are in our lives to teach us a lesson. Perhaps we can be a constant reminder to them that supportive people are a blessing in our lives.

When I consider complaining because I sprained my ankle this week or that I now squashed into an apartment while we find a house, I reminded about the people who are really suffering. I may be having some of those inconvenient rainy days where it thundering, but the lightning hasn hit. We all healthy. We talented and we have friends and family that love us. We have our whole life ahead of us.

For my friends who are in the thick of the storm, I know that I can reach down deep and help them somehow. I know that I can send a card, an email, or even send up prayers on their behalf.

I know that this is how you build self esteem in people. I know it how you get people thinking about how great their own lives are. Just get them to start helping others and soon, their own attitudes have shifted to a sense of gratitude.

Who can you help today? What kind word can you give to a person today? Do you have any extra money this month that you can send to a needy family member, like a college student?

How about your neighbors? Is there anyone quietly in need that you sensed that a warm cooked meal can help? Did anyone lose their parents to death? Can you send them a card? Is there a mother struggling with a difficult teenager? She just might need a word of encouragement and not another piece of criticism.

In our media driven society, it seems that if you not 25, gorgeous and on TV, then you not a star. But in REAL life, as a member of a community, each person can be the star to those around them. And there is no better feeling, then to be able to actually help someone else.

And when the thunder and lightning come into your own life, you be ready. The thunder won bother you much, and for as for the lightning, you get a chance to see how awesome your family and friends really are. They step up to the plate and surround you with care.

What a beautiful place to be, in the eye of the storm.

Mary Gardner is an Executive Communications Consultant and Coach. She works with, coaches and trains individuals, sales teams, executives, and celebrities. She enjoys seeing the best come out in people and has fun in the process. Mary is married to Sway and is mommy to Jeremy 5 and lives in Orlando, FL.

Friday, January 3, 2014

Many people believe that it is more difficult to expunge or seal a felony arrest, versus a misdemeanor arrest. Well, this belief both is and isnt correct! Let me explain why.

People are correct in their assumption that it can be more challenging to remove a felony from a criminal history record than to remove a misdemeanor charge. This is the case for two reasons:

1. In Florida, the decision whether to grant or deny a petition to seal or expunge is within the discretion of the court, based on a consideration of all the facts and circumstances standard. More serious charges may be more seriously considered by a court, plus, may increase the likelihood the state would object to your petition. If the state objects, a hearing must be held, and you would be faced with trying to prevent the prosecutor from convincing the judge that your history should not be sealed.

2. The Florida statutes contain a list of offenses that cannot be sealed pretty much all felonies. These prohibited offenses include sex crimes, homicide, and kidnapping, to name a few.

Most people are incorrect, however, in assuming that the sealing or expunction of a felony is procedurally more difficult than sealing or expunging a misdemeanor. The Florida legal procedures to seal or expunge a felony and a misdemeanor are exactly the same. There are statutory requirements that a person must meet in order to be eligible to seal or expunge a record generally, but no distinction is drawn between felonies and misdemeanors specifically.

One thing to keep in mind though, if you are reading this article before your criminal case has been resolved, is that sometimes it is better under Florida law from a sealing/expunging perspective only to plead guilty or no contest to a lesser offense if arrested for one of the prohibited offenses, then to have the charges against you dropped or dismissed. Remember, it is the final charge that counts.

I know this is a little counterintuitive, but let me explain. For example, say you were arrested in Florida for sexual battery. If the prosecutor drops or the court dismisses the charges against you, you are ineligible to have that arrest sealed or expunged and you would be stuck with an arrest for sexual battery on your record forever. However, if you plead guilty or no contest to a lesser offense such as misdemeanor battery, and receive a withheld adjudication, you likely can have the record including the arrest sealed, if you meet all the other eligibility requirements. Obviously, this is not the only point you would want to consider in determining your case strategy, but it is one often overlooked thats worth at least thinking about..

The viscous coupling is often found in allwheeldrive vehicles. It is commonly used to link the back wheels to the front wheels so that when one set of wheels starts to slip, torque will be transferred to the other set.

The viscous coupling has two sets of plates inside a sealed housing that is filled with a thick fluid, as shown in below. One set of plates is connected to each output shaft. Under normal conditions, both sets of plates and the viscous fluid spin at the same speed. When one set of wheels tries to spin faster, perhaps because it is slipping, the set of plates corresponding to those wheels spins faster than the other. The viscous fluid, stuck between the plates, tries to catch up with the faster disks, dragging the slower disks along. This transfers more torque to the slower moving wheels the wheels that are not slipping.

When a car is turning, the difference in speed between the wheels is not as large as when one wheel is slipping. The faster the plates are spinning relative to each other, the more torque the viscous coupling transfers. The coupling does not interfere with turns because the amount of torque transferred during a turn is so small. However, this also highlights a disadvantage of the viscous coupling: No torque transfer will occur until a wheel actually starts slipping.

A simple experiment with an egg will help explain the behavior of the viscous coupling. If you set an egg on the kitchen table, the shell and the yolk are both stationary. If you suddenly spin the egg, the shell will be moving at a faster speed than the yolk for a second, but the yolk will quickly catch up. To prove that the yolk is spinning, once you have the egg spinning quickly stop it and then let go the egg will start to spin again unless it is hard boiled. In this experiment, we used the friction between the shell and the yolk to apply force to the yolk, speeding it up. When we stopped the shell, that friction between the stillmoving yolk and the shell applied force to the shell, causing it to speed up. In a viscous coupling, the force is applied between the fluid and the sets of plates in the same way as between the yolk and the shell.

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Go past the jukebox and climb the stacked books. Looking around you should see an arcade machine behind you. Transform into tweek and glide over to the arcade machine.

There are two buttons on this machine start and fire. Jump on the start button. Winning one round of this sub game activates the TINY CHARACTER cheat.

A group of rustic hot spring resorts, a countyowned public pool, and a natural pond in the low desert of eastern California near Death Valley. This rather rundown town is hot spring heaven if you arent looking for fancy resorts. Most of the hotels are older and have seen better days, and many are now closed. The resorts all have hot pools for use of their guests and in some cases for day use. Baths range from common warm pools to individual private tubs. The resorts and county pool are developed; the pond is primitive. One of Californias best hot spring trails, Tecopa Hot Springs is located near Tecopa, CA. Trails printable online topo maps offer shaded and unshaded reliefs, and aerial photos too! Use topographic map functionality to find elevation, print high resolution maps, save a PNG, or just learn the topography around Tecopa Hot Springs. You can also get free latitude and longitude coordinates from the topographical map and set your GPS. Subscribers with access to our maps can download or print any topo, and cover more terrain when you map your Tecopa Hot Springs route ahead of time.

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When the word culture is mentioned, we can think of many things as cultural, such as language, clothings. etc, because we classify cultures of different places. However, culture is so valuable that it has to be kept for thousands of years,and passed on by one generation to another. Culture is so important that it is more than its distinct visible features, if we extends this to the inner self of a person, to members within a society, further to the whole community, maybe we can find some answers by finding out how they are affected by culture.

Since culture can form invisible bonds between members in the community, this can hold people with the same cultural background together, passing on the values. This propogation of values is can not only transmit culture knowledge and retain the relationship among people, it also builds up a long term tradition after years and years. Culture is strengthened in this way because it can give background and reference to its later generations of its ability of keeping the longterm tradition, gaining the sense of belonging of people to the country of that culture.

Employers seek job applicants or employees who are reliable and hardworking. However, there are large numbers of drug abusers employed in the US. Employee drug abuse can cause serious problems to a company. The facts such as, drug abusers cost over $100 billion every year to the employers and 65% of all work related accidents are due to drug abuse emphasizes the importance of employee drug testing.

There are four main types of drug tests, which are used by employers to test drug abuse in job applicants or employees to make work place safe, productive, and drug free.

Reasonable Suspicion Drug Test is done when a person is observed to be under the influence of drugs at work place. Reasonable Suspicion Drug Tests help to immediately identify the drug abuser, avoiding any loss at work further. This type of test discourages the employees to by under the influence at workplace.

Drug testing is becoming important with the increasing number of drug abusers at work place. These tests protect the company from liability, discourage, and deter the employees from drug abuse, which results in enhanced productivity of employees and the organization as a whole..

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

HAZMAT labels are extremely important for recognizing and identifying the dangers of any hazardous materials. Applying safety labels to machinery storage containers can save time, money, and reduce the risk of unnecessary accidents. By correctly identifying substances, HAZMAT labels can ease the disposal process too.

Common Features of HAZMAT Labels

Warning labels can take many forms, but most follow a few general rules. In a highly noticeable color and location, a signal word, such as danger or warning is often used. Different signal words connote different degrees of potential hazard.

Beneath or directly adjacent to the signal word is a panel with a simple graphic demonstration of the type of danger. Electrical, flammable, chemical, or mechanical dangers all have different, easytoread pictographs. This panel of the HAZMAT label is often larger and brighter than the other panels, featuring a black and white, highcontrast graphic.

Finally, a more descriptive message should be included somewhere on the label. They message should be concise, and use the most direct language possible. In the event of an emergency, messages that require interpretation can slow response time and compound potential hazards.

HAZMAT labels are extremely important for recognizing and identifying the dangers of any hazardous materials. Applying safety labels to machinery storage containers can save time, money, and reduce the risk of unnecessary accidents. By correctly identifying substances, HAZMAT labels can ease the disposal process too.

Common Features of HAZMAT Labels

Warning labels can take many forms, but most follow a few general rules. In a highly noticeable color and location, a signal word, such as danger or warning is often used. Different signal words connote different degrees of potential hazard.

Beneath or directly adjacent to the signal word is a panel with a simple graphic demonstration of the type of danger. Electrical, flammable, chemical, or mechanical dangers all have different, easytoread pictographs. This panel of the HAZMAT label is often larger and brighter than the other panels, featuring a black and white, highcontrast graphic.

Finally, a more descriptive message should be included somewhere on the label. They message should be concise, and use the most direct language possible. In the event of an emergency, messages that require interpretation can slow response time and compound potential hazards.

But what about the many small businesses that are mobile: vendors at antique shows, farmers markets, rock concerts, art shows, book signings, sidewalk food carts, craft and flea markets? Think about all the service providers who come into the home or office: portrait photographers, plumbers, consultants, contractors, even your babysitter. With the many cell phone solutions that have appeared in the last year or two, small businesses and sole proprietors can accept credit cards anywhere, without having to invest in a bulky and pricey $400700 wireless credit card terminal, or resort to the old knucklebuster imprinter. Companies that use mobile sales reps or sell at conventions, seminars and trade shows can also benefit from mobile credit card processing. There are two types of mobile services, those with and without a device to swipe credit cards, but the majority of card readers currently available are designed for iPhones. By law, credit card data is encrypted and never stored on the phone. Most services require an app that is downloaded to your phone. It works with iPhone/iPod Touch, and is one of the few services that also runs on Android, Blackberry and Windows, with a connection to a WiFi, Edge or 3G network and an app you download right from their website. If you use for your merchant account, there are no gateway or cellular access fees and no contract, termination or annual fees. The package, called the Complete Credit Card Solution, consisting of the Mophie Marketplace Credit Card Reader and Intuit GoPayment, is available from Amazon, The Apple Store, AT Intuit and Mophie. Slip your iPhone 3G or 3GS into the PAYware Mobile card encryption sleeve and swipe the card through a slot on the side. Enter the amount of the charge in the PAYware Mobile app and have the customer sign with a stylus or fingertip on the cell phone screen. The transaction is geotagged so you know the exact location of the sale, and you can email a receipt to the customer. VeriFones PAYware Connect payment gateway is used to process payments, with endtoend encryption. No other gateway is supported. Merchant account is required and the PAYware app is downloaded from the Apple iPhone App Store.

Simply Swipe It LLC and Macally

Swipe It app uses Macallys QuikSwipe Reader for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Transactions are encrypted before they reach the phone. The nice thing is that the reader cradles the cellular device with a spring loaded system that promises to fit all iPhones and iPods, present and future. Swipe It features onscreen signature capture, email receipts, and a free Virtual Terminal for webbased transactions and online reporting. This service uses the Simply EPay Gateway and will support your existing merchant account or help you set up an account with Axia Payments. It can be used with or without their card reader, which is compatible with iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G and 3G. If you dont have a merchant account and gateway, you can apply through iMerchantPro.

ROAMPays card swipe device works with Android, iPhone and Blackberry and plugs into the headphone jack. The ROAMPay app supports over 200 phones for keyed transactions.

Square has been big news since it was announced in December 2009 by cofounder Jack Dorsey also cofounder of Twitter. The Square credit card reader plugs into the audio input jack of the iPhone and is not much bigger than a postage stamp. With no contracts or monthly charges, a free card reader, and a promise of 0 to $60 in under 10 seconds, it seems to good to be true, and in fact, it might just be. According to Robin Wauters of TechCrunch, the tiny Square device is now the subject of a legal dispute over the patent. If the matter is resolved in Squares favor, the company could be a major contender in the mobile payments market.

Read the fine print when you compare merchant accounts, gateways and mobile apps. Rates are different for swiped and keyed transactions. When you swipe the card, rather than keying information into a phone, it becomes what is called a cardpresent transaction. Because this reduces credit card fraud and manual entry errors, and is therefore less risk for the bank, it will reduce the fees you pay on the merchant account. You may be charged a setup fee, an annual fee and/or monthly fee, and a fee per transaction. Some services require a contract or use of a particular merchant account or gateway. Take all these things into account when choosing your mobile payment solution.

But what about the many small businesses that are mobile: vendors at antique shows, farmers markets, rock concerts, art shows, book signings, sidewalk food carts, craft and flea markets? Think about all the service providers who come into the home or office: portrait photographers, plumbers, consultants, contractors, even your babysitter. With the many cell phone solutions that have appeared in the last year or two, small businesses and sole proprietors can accept credit cards anywhere, without having to invest in a bulky and pricey $400700 wireless credit card terminal, or resort to the old knucklebuster imprinter. Companies that use mobile sales reps or sell at conventions, seminars and trade shows can also benefit from mobile credit card processing. There are two types of mobile services, those with and without a device to swipe credit cards, but the majority of card readers currently available are designed for iPhones. By law, credit card data is encrypted and never stored on the phone. Most services require an app that is downloaded to your phone. It works with iPhone/iPod Touch, and is one of the few services that also runs on Android, Blackberry and Windows, with a connection to a WiFi, Edge or 3G network and an app you download right from their website. If you use for your merchant account, there are no gateway or cellular access fees and no contract, termination or annual fees. The package, called the Complete Credit Card Solution, consisting of the Mophie Marketplace Credit Card Reader and Intuit GoPayment, is available from Amazon, The Apple Store, AT Intuit and Mophie. Slip your iPhone 3G or 3GS into the PAYware Mobile card encryption sleeve and swipe the card through a slot on the side. Enter the amount of the charge in the PAYware Mobile app and have the customer sign with a stylus or fingertip on the cell phone screen. The transaction is geotagged so you know the exact location of the sale, and you can email a receipt to the customer. VeriFones PAYware Connect payment gateway is used to process payments, with endtoend encryption. No other gateway is supported. Merchant account is required and the PAYware app is downloaded from the Apple iPhone App Store.

Simply Swipe It LLC and Macally

Swipe It app uses Macallys QuikSwipe Reader for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Transactions are encrypted before they reach the phone. The nice thing is that the reader cradles the cellular device with a spring loaded system that promises to fit all iPhones and iPods, present and future. Swipe It features onscreen signature capture, email receipts, and a free Virtual Terminal for webbased transactions and online reporting. This service uses the Simply EPay Gateway and will support your existing merchant account or help you set up an account with Axia Payments. It can be used with or without their card reader, which is compatible with iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G and 3G. If you dont have a merchant account and gateway, you can apply through iMerchantPro.

ROAMPays card swipe device works with Android, iPhone and Blackberry and plugs into the headphone jack. The ROAMPay app supports over 200 phones for keyed transactions.

Square has been big news since it was announced in December 2009 by cofounder Jack Dorsey also cofounder of Twitter. The Square credit card reader plugs into the audio input jack of the iPhone and is not much bigger than a postage stamp. With no contracts or monthly charges, a free card reader, and a promise of 0 to $60 in under 10 seconds, it seems to good to be true, and in fact, it might just be. According to Robin Wauters of TechCrunch, the tiny Square device is now the subject of a legal dispute over the patent. If the matter is resolved in Squares favor, the company could be a major contender in the mobile payments market.

Read the fine print when you compare merchant accounts, gateways and mobile apps. Rates are different for swiped and keyed transactions. When you swipe the card, rather than keying information into a phone, it becomes what is called a cardpresent transaction. Because this reduces credit card fraud and manual entry errors, and is therefore less risk for the bank, it will reduce the fees you pay on the merchant account. You may be charged a setup fee, an annual fee and/or monthly fee, and a fee per transaction. Some services require a contract or use of a particular merchant account or gateway. Take all these things into account when choosing your mobile payment solution.